VIDEO: Skydiver's GoPro digicam captures aircraft crash - KTRK-television

ACAMPO, CA (KTRK) --

Video captured the dramatic and terrifying moments earlier than a plane carrying 17 skydivers and a pilot crashed.

The pilot and skydivers had simply taken off from Lodi Airport in California on Thursday around 2pm. The aircraft through which they were touring all started experiencing engine crisis, the Federal Aviation Administration stated.

The aircraft turned into flying too low for the divers to leap out. The pilot tried grew to become the plane back to the airport. The plane clipped a truck because it approached the runway and crashed just off the airport, landing the wrong way up in a vineyard.

"I heard a crash at the back of me and seemed up, saw the airplane cartwheeling, noticed the tail above the grapevines," Kevin Conklin told ABC10, "relatively wild."

The skydivers' helmet-set up GoPro cameras captured their sheer terror and panic as the aircraft plummeted to the earth. as the plane flipped on its facet, the skydivers found themselves piled on true of each other within the chaos.

"subsequent component we recognize somebody is freaking out in the returned of the airplane screaming," skydiver T.J. Landgren said. "I begun to hear vines rip and it became a count of seconds. ... I did not feel i used to be going home."

Witnesses and rescue people credited the pilot for averting vigour lines in addition to homes because the airplane dropped from the sky. no person turned into critically hurt on the airplane.

"If it wasn't for the pilot, we shouldn't have made it," Landgren stated. "Our lives had been in his fingers."

Rescuers found the pilot and skydivers standing round on the crash site.

The FAA referred to the pilot suffered minor accidents, but nobody on the ground turned into injured.

The FAA and the countrywide Transportation safeguard Board talked about they have been investigating the crash.

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